From: Gunnlaugur Þór Briem <gunnlaugur@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:33:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document git-svn fetch --log-window-size parameter
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Document git-svn fetch --log-window-size parameter

The --log-window-size parameter to git-svn fetch is undocumented.

Minimally describe what it does and why the user might change it.

Signed-off-by: Gunnlaugur Þór Briem <gunnlaugur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index cfe8d2b5df..8b0d3adfed 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;;
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 --
 
+--log-window-size=<n>;;
+    Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
+    The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger
+    values may be needed for 'clone'/'fetch' to complete in reasonable
+    time. But overly large values may lead to higher memory usage and
+    request timeouts.
+
 'clone'::
 	Runs 'init' and 'fetch'.  It will automatically create a
 	directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it;